The article offers an overall introduction to Christian apocrypha. After a discussion of several terminological problems, it provides criteria for a definition of apocryphal literature and related traditions. After that, it discusses aspects of the question of why it may be meaningful to st...
The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. The Law is understood with reference to a renewed ecclesiology expressed in the texts of the Second Vatican Council, which deeply...
The term ‘law’ does not admit of easy or universal definition. In its broadest sense, law consists of all the written and unwritten norms that govern human conduct – moral commandments, state statutes, church canons, family rules, commercial habits, communal customs, and others. It includes...